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Simon Estok,
The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change

Examining how water appears to humanity (its forms) and how humanity apprehends it (our perceptual horizons), this book proposes a methodology for better understanding and conceptualizing our relationship…

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Edward Watts
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

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Amanda Anderson, Simon During
Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

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Vin Nardizzi
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were use…

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Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writingHailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton,…

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Brinda J Mehta
The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East

The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critica…

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Teaching Post-1945 American Short Fiction

New frontiers in American fictionAfter 1945, women, people of color, and queer writers remade American short fiction, rejecting the modernist dogmas of impersonality and universalism that had long exclude…

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Mark B Kelley
Crimes Against Feeling

Demonstrating how emotion became central to the legal and literary meanings of piracy in nineteenth-century AmericaPirates have long occupied a central yet unstable place in American law and national iden…

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The Uncollected Louis Zukofsky

A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet's extraordinary work. Includes unpublished essays, drama, and poetry that enhances Zukofsky's stature within the revolutiona…

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Andrew Harrison
The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: Paleface

The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis brings together for the first time all of the published writings of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), a major contributor to literary modernism and one of the most important …

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Veronika Tuckerová
Reading Kafka in Prague

An untold history of Franz Kafka's reception in his homeland under two totalitarian regimes, from his death in 1924 to the end of communism 1989.In the first book-length study of the reception of Kafka in…

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William H Pritchard
On Frost and Eliot

Named a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice ReviewsRobert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But they …

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Teaching Post-1945 American Short Fiction

New frontiers in American fictionAfter 1945, women, people of color, and queer writers remade American short fiction, rejecting the modernist dogmas of impersonality and universalism that had long exclude…

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Naama Harel
The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman …

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Anna Jones Abramson
Novel Atmospheres

How modernist novels learned to think through air, mood, and environment.Modernist literature is often associated with interiority and psychological depth.Novel Atmospheres turns this account inside out, …

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Fang Tang
Metaphors of Illness in Chinese North American Literature

By exploring various representations of illness and disability in Chinese American literature, Sarah Tang argues that narratives of ailments transcend the boundaries of medical therapy to become essential…

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Lena Mattheis
Queer Forms and Pronouns

Queer Forms and Pronouns is a journey into the world of gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in literature. Pronouns are frequently discussed in the contexts of language policies, grammar, and inclusion, b…

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Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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Cecilia Farr
As I Was Saying

An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein's masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein's novel represents a peak of modernist literature: fille…

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Classic Football Shirts
Classic Football Shirts

This is a love letter to football shirts and fan culture, told through the world's most sought-after kits. From greatest hits to modern classics, this book includes all of the most iconic shirts from the …

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